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How exposed are you?
Every link you don’t own can be recorded today. Count yours.
Payments, identities, contracts: whatever crosses a carrier, the internet or a cloud provider can be copied now and opened on Q‑Day. Here’s a typical bank.
Your sitesTheir wire: carrier, internet, cloudHarvested here, opened later
Your sitesHarvested on their wire, opened later
Your coredata center
- Branch officesaccounts and identities
- Second data centera full copy of everything
- Clearing and settlementtransaction records
- Card and payment networkscard and payment data
- Cloud and multi-cloudbackups and analytics
- Remote and third partiescontracts and vendor access
Your sites. Your data. Your responsibility, all the way across.
None of these links is badly built.
They follow the standards the industry agreed on.But they were built before quantum was a threat.
“Won’t the data be old by Q‑Day?”
Some of it. Most of it will still be worth stealing.
Accounts and identitiesbranch offices
A full copy of everythingsecond data center
Backups and analyticscloud and multi-cloud
Transaction recordsclearing and settlement
Contracts and vendor accessremote and third parties
Card numbersold cards expire; new ones land in the window
Recorded todayTodayQ‑Day window opensQ‑Day window2040For life
How long each kind of data stays sensitive. The red part is still worth stealing after Q‑Day. Illustrative: your retention rules set the real lengths.
Take this to your security team
“How many of our links still use RSA or elliptic‑curve key exchange, and how long does the data on them need to stay secret?”
If that time, plus the time it takes to switch, reaches past Q‑Day, you’re already behind.
Not sure how to answer it? We’ll help you find out